Paedophile brags of not being supervised on release from prison

A paedophile with more than 40 convictions has written a letter to a convicts
magazine claiming that he was not supervised after being released from
prison, despite being labelled a high risk to children by the Probation
Service.

Grosvenor refers to the rolling out of Sarah's Law – a scheme which allows parents to ask police to check if neighbours or carers have committed sex crimes in the pastPhoto: PA

By Daily Telegraph Reporter

6:44PM BST 11 Aug 2010

Steve Grosvenor was released from HMP Peterborough in May this year even though experts said he had an 80 per cent risk of reoffending within the year.

He has more than 200 offences and 40 separate convictions dating back to the 1980s for crimes including sex offences against children, violence and possession of a gun.

Ministry of Justice officials confirmed that the serial sex pest was not immediately monitored upon his release in May – and was unsupervised for a "number of weeks".

However, they said that Grosvenor was now 'being monitored by the Probation Service' and was on the sex offenders' register, adding: "He's on radar now."

In a letter to Inside Time this week, headlined 'Call this protecting the public?', Grosvenor refers to the rolling out of Sarah's Law – a scheme which allows parents to ask police to check if neighbours or carers have committed sex crimes in the past.

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Grosvenor says in his letter: "I am sure many of your readers will have heard of the new Sarah’s Law, which was trialled and is now in force across many areas of the UK.

"I would bet, however, that not many people are aware of just what a waste of space it is ... along I would suggest with the Sex Offender Register and MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements)"

MAPPA supports the management of the most serious and violent offenders, including the UK's 30,000 registered sex offenders.

Grosvenor adds: "I wonder how Mrs Payne, whose 9 year-old daughter Sarah was murdered in 2000, will feel to learn that, as a convicted paedophile with more than 40 previous convictions for well in excess of 200 offences dating back to the 1980s, I was released from prison in May.

"(I was) homeless, with no supervision whatsoever and no money save for the £47 standard discharge grant."

He added: "Despite numerous convictions for violence, sex offences, firearms and offensive weapons, the ‘authorities’ seemed perfectly happy to allow me to walk out of prison with no idea where I was going.

"(They were) content in the knowledge that probation had categorised me as ‘high risk to children’, with an 80% chance of reconviction within a year.

"I ask you, how on earth is that protecting the public?

A spokesman for the Probation Service said it always tried to minimise the risk posed by offenders once they have been released.